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We have our first event of 2014, a table at University of Utah SWE’s annual Girl Scout Night called “Engineering: it’s a Girl Thing, Jr” event, Feb 21st from 4:30pm-9pm at the University of Utah.

It coincides with “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day”. The theme is engineering revolving around food. For example, chemical engineering is demonstrating liquid nitrogen ice cream and “production engineering” is doing a pudding production line. Keeping with the theme of sugary indulgence, we are currently planning on demonstrating the function of microwave ovens through a presentation of microwave energy and how it transforms marshmallows (ever done a microwave Peep fight?).0

Additional ideas are powering an LED using lemons, i.e. electrochemistry. I could use help in presentation for microwave energy if someone would like to come up with some slides/animations for electromagnetic energy and/or cavity resonances. I will provide a laptop and monitor for viewing slides. Also, anyone want to own the electrochemistry portion? Create a demo of powering an LED using lemons?

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3/9/14- Expanding Your Horizons — Outreach Program